Noah’s first is September 28.
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(December 2000) Reporting on George W. Bush’s remarks as he clinched the presidency, Stewart replayed Bush declaring, “I was not elected to serve one party”, to which he retorted, “You were not ELECTED”.
Still, Noah’s perspective is completely different from Stewart’s.
“And the general thrusts of all of those meetings or phone conversations are the same: ‘Jon, why are you such an a**hole?'”. He tried to introduce himself at the Television Critics Association Press Tour on Wednesday and assured critics that what we love about The Daily Show will still be there, albeit a bit differently. “… We still want the show to be recognized as ‘The Daily Show, ‘ because that’s what it is”.
The report said Stewart was often “working in concert with, the Obama administration”, and it set off a media firestorm. In 1999, the 24-hour news cycle was just coming into its own, but now there are other media outlets to make fun of. “That’s what inspired it”, he said.
“Look, let me tell you how this happened”. It’s no longer predicated around 24-hour news. “There are so many different choices. I’m still in the comedy business, and that’s the most important thing Jon Stewart left with me”. Jon believes in me.
He does feel the weight of taking over the franchise, commenting, “There’s an vast pressure for me personally to live up to that legacy to keep that flagship going”.
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Noah also addressed the controversy that erupted shortly after his hiring when some tweets he made between 2009 and 2014 that were criticized by some as sexist, anti-Semitic and racist. “But you can never control what people find is offensive or not”. Now, you’ve got the Gawkers and the BuzzFeeds, and the way people are absorbing their news in sound bites and headlines and little click links has changed everything. “Luckily, Comedy Central hasn’t limited me to 140 characters on the show, so I should be able to [better articulate context]”.
